But it is grievous how often any change knocks me up.
Of late anything which flurries me completely knocks me up afterwards, and brings on a violent palpitation of the heart.
Half an hour later the house was locked, and the crazy old man was wandering along through the rooms in excited expectation of hearing every minute the five knocks agreed upon.
So that the first signal of five knocks means Agrafena Alexandrovna has come, while the second signal of three knocks means ‘something important to tell you.
The secret of the knocks impressed the lawyers almost as much as Grigory’s evidence as to the open door.
Lord Elton was chatting in English with Mary and her mother, explaining that only yesterday he had returned from London, where he had been on leave, when of a sudden three loud, distinctknocks were heard, and in an instant there was silence.
There is no arguing with Johnson; for if his pistol misses fire he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
When she knocksat your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship: pass on.
And up she threw the window sash, And out her head put she: And who is that which knocks so late And taunts so loud to me?
There is a silver lining to every hard knocks cloud.
Consider the Sticky Flypaper Did you ever watch a fly get his Needless Knocks on the sticky flypaper?
In almost every community are what we sometimes call "hard knocks graduates"--people who have never been to college nor have studied many or any books.
Stop, Look, Listen" And thru the bumps we learn that The College of Needless Knocks runs on the same plan.
There comes a vivid memory of one of my early Needless Knocks as I say that.
The tuition in the University of Hard Knocks is not free.
They are the guideboard knocksthat point us to the higher pathway.
The tuition in The College of Needless Knocks is very high indeed!
The University of Hard Knocks Chapter I The Books Are Bumps THE greatest school is the University of Hard Knocks.
The clothing we wear, the food we eat, the house we live in, all have to have the Needful Knocks to become useful.
We discover, in other words, that The University of Hard Knockshas two colleges--The College of Needless Knocks and The College of Needful Knocks.
It had been moved over the Great Lakes and the rails to what they call a blast furnace, the technological name of which being The College of Needful Knocks for Red Mud.
They had found hard knocks in the world and occasional stolen glimpses of tenderness--not a tenderness which one could carry about as a thing expected, could arrange life by, and refer to as to a timepiece in the pocket.
It knocksyou over in a second, and deaths from sunstroke, even among the natives, are frequent.
Securing Karra to the old tree, I again ascended to the top, this time not without some hard knocks and scratches, while the perspiration poured off me in my anxiety to lose no time.
I don't mind telling you that I'm older than I look, and it's a wonder to me after the hard knocks I've had.
They dodged a good many rough knocks that the poor couldn't dodge, but something usually came along to even up the score, if nothing else--the old boy with the scythe.
Oh, well, if that's all, I'll probably have hard knocks enough before I get through.
She crosses a little passage and goes to the door leading into his room, and knocks lightly; no answer.
She knocks again, more impatiently this time, and as still only silence follows her attempt, she opens the door and steps on tiptoe into the room.
Rylton's voice is a little curt as he knocksat his wife's door.
Tita has hardly been in her room twenty minutes, has hardly, indeed, had time to change her clothes, when Margaret knocksat the door.
There is scarcely time for Lady Rylton to make arrangements for a private interview with her daughter-in-law, as Mrs. Bethune has scarcely left her room before that small person knocks at the door.
The latter fact rather knocksout the little remaining romance about the place.
You see I always have something queer in my inside; it knocks me about dreadfully, but still I'm better.
All at once the young man heard three hurried knocks at the door.
There is no truth in the saying that opportunity knocks at our door but once in a lifetime.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
